What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)

[Reno]

 

[Reno]

I watched The Abandoned, a haunted house movie about an American woman who returns to Russia from where she was adopted as a baby to find out about her past. She stays at the now derelict farm house where she was born and things go bump, night and day. Not strong on plot or sense, but very atmospheric and I found it quite scary in places, with the house being some genuinely hideous shit hole.

 

[Nanker Phelge]

Who's the guy behind Reno?

One of the Alabama 3. They aint going to goa.....

 

[Nanker Phelge]

I watched The Abandoned, a haunted house movie about an American woman who returns to Russia from where she was adopted as a baby to find out about her past. She stays at the now derelict farm house where she was born and things go bump, night and day. Not strong on plot or sense, but very atmospheric and I found it quite scary in places, with the house being some genuinely hideous shit hole.

Sounds a bit like a film with Anna Paquin and Iain Glenn.....where they move to Spain to the house the dad grew up and 'bad things' start to happen.....only ever seen half of it though.

 

[starfish]

Necromentia & The Killing Room. I really need to tell ms starfish she doesnt have to record everything thats on the horror channel.

 

[Casually Red]

The other night i got out Lawless, starring Gary Oldman and Sweeney starring Ray Winstone . Found Lawless a bit disappointing . Good cast and some really good moments and all that tried to be well authentic but I felt it just ran out of steam halfway through . Oldman inexplicably just disappeared from the film after a couple of breif scenes despite being billed as a main character . Could have been good but seemed to just lose its way .
Sweeney was pretty good , a decent attempt . Not brilliant but good enough .

 

[Reno]

Sounds a bit like a film with Anna Paquin and Iain Glenn.....where they move to Spain to the house the dad grew up and 'bad things' start to happen.....only ever seen half of it though.

That one was called Darkness and is rather boring. If you've only seen half of it you must have fallen asleep.

 

[zenie]

Caught p to date with series 2 of revenge on 4od. Just waiting for series 5 onwards of weeds to arrive now might make a start on Game of Thrones after that.... /life

 

[Reno]

I watched the the quadro boobed Hammer classic that is Twins of Evil. It's the type of film where Peter Cushing dramatically intones the title at some point. Class !

 

[frogwoman]

watched the latest utopia. i didn't think it was as good as the others at first but got better towards the end. Also was it me or was grant's accent a bit different this time?

 

[Fez909]

Watched Cashback and thought it was shite, and quite pervy.

The humour was seriously lame and the plot as derivative as it gets. Add some bloke stripping women without their permission and drawing them and you've got a very bad film indeed.

 

[kittyP]

Been watching all the old Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes since we discovered they are all in full episodes on YouTube

 

[Nanker Phelge]

That one was called Darkness and is rather boring. If you've only seen half of it you must have fallen asleep.

I did......

 

[blairsh]

Finally watched the last three episodes of The Shield t'other night, fuckin ace

Need something else to watch now on lazy days...

 

[jeff_leigh]

Finally watched the last three episodes of The Shield t'other night, fuckin ace

Need something else to watch now on lazy days...

Didn't you feel sorry for Vic ?

 

[blairsh]

Didn't you feel sorry for Vic ?

I felt sorry for Ronnie Vic should have gone out in a blaze of glory, instead he lamed out

 

[butchersapron]

Fear of Water - classic old school style whodunit, nothing special in terms of story or style, but sometimes that's a good thing.

 

[Reno]

I felt sorry for Ronnie Vic should have gone out in a blaze of glory, instead he lamed out

I loved The Shield, but I'll never get the hero worship of characters who are greedy, murdering cunts. I thought Vic got exactly what he deserved, a working life that would be his worst nightmare, his own private hell. The end was very clever. If he had gone out on a "blaze of glory" that would have been trite fanboy badassery and that would have been the type of series I would not go near.

 

[purenarcotic]

Finally saw Headhunters the other night. Excellent interpretation I thought.

 

[blairsh]

I loved The Shield, but I'll never get the hero worship of characters who are greedy, murdering cunts. I thought Vic got exactly what he deserved, a working life that would be his worst nightmare, his own private hell. The end was very clever. If he had gone out on a "blaze of glory" that would have been trite fanboy badassery and that would have been the type of series I would not go near.

I get that fair point, but it didn't seem to fit how he'd been for seven series and i'm a sucker for blazing things and glory . I was gutted when they killed Lem though

 

[redsquirrel]

The Thin Red Line - the Malick version, looks fantastic and there are some good bits but I didn't think it worked overall. Maybe I just wasn't in the right frame of mind but I certainly enjoyed Men In War more.

 

[DexterTCN]

K-PAX. They say it's a sci-fi but it isn't really, it's just an early Kevin Spacey showing off his acting talents again (not saying that's a bad thing). It's a bit like an aussie film called Powder and not much like StarMan.

 

[belboid]

I felt sorry for Ronnie Vic should have gone out in a blaze of glory, instead he lamed out

Aah but it was so right, Vic trying for once to do the right thing, and it lands him in his version of hell. Perfect.

 

[Yetman]

K-PAX. They say it's a sci-fi but it isn't really, it's just an early Kevin Spacey showing off his acting talents again (not saying that's a bad thing). It's a bit like an aussie film called Powder and not much like StarMan.

Jesse out of breaking bad is in it at the end

Great film though

 

[DexterTCN]

Jesse out of breaking bad is in it at the end

Great film though

Yeah we noticed that, looked exactly the same!

 

[8115]

Happiness.

Jesus

 

[Virtual Blue]

Finished Homeland Season 1 - slow burner and things don't get interesting until the final third. great climax. sleepy otherwise.

 

[TruXta]

Saw two entertaining martial arts movies on the flight last night.

First was Tai Chi Zero, which reminded me a bit of Shaolin Soccer and the like, except with added cyberpunk and manga. Pretty conventional story and no great acting chops on display, but still a pleasing watch.

Then The Grand Heist - Korean film set in the 1700s IIRC, also with plenty of martial arts on display, but not really a martial arts movie IYSWIM. Also very entertaining, and with a more subtle script than the above, not that that takes much.

 

[scalyboy]

Then The Grand Heist - Korean film set in the 1700s IIRC, also with plenty of martial arts on display, but not really a martial arts movie IYSWIM

Do you know if the martial art was Taekwondo? Lots of kicking? Me and the mrs are on the lookout for martial arts films featuring Taekwondo (whether made in Korea or no), seem a bit hard to find.

 

[TruXta]

Do you know if the martial art was Taekwondo? Lots of kicking? Me and the mrs are on the lookout for martial arts films featuring Taekwondo (whether made in Korea or no), seem a bit hard to find.

No idea mate, tbh it featured a fair whack of line-work and similar trickery. If only you asked about Tai Chi Zero - each main character was introduced with character name, actor name AND why they were in the movie in the first place, stuff like, was a 70s martial arts film star, is a Wing Chun champion, is a famous female actor and so on